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ψιμύθιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψιμύθιον

Structure: ψιμυθι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: yi/muqos

Sense

  1. white lead

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ψιμύθιον ψιμυθίω ψιμύθια
Genitive ψιμυθίου ψιμυθίοιν ψιμυθίων
Dative ψιμυθίῳ ψιμυθίοιν ψιμυθίοις
Accusative ψιμύθιον ψιμυθίω ψιμύθια
Vocative ψιμύθιον ψιμυθίω ψιμύθια

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • εἶτα φιάλην αἰτήσασ, ἀναδόντοσ τινόσ, ῥᾳδίωσ ὑποβαλὼν ἀνιμᾶται μετὰ τοῦ ὕδατοσ καὶ τοῦ πηλοῦ τὸ ᾠὸν ἐκεῖνο ἐν ᾧ ὁ θεὸσ αὐτῷ κατεκέκλειστο, κηρῷ λευκῷ καὶ ψιμυθίῳ τὴν ἁρμογὴν τοῦ πώματοσ συγκεκολλημένον καὶ λαβὼν αὐτὸ εἰσ τὰσ ’χεῖρασ ἔχειν ἔφασκεν ἤδη τὸν Ἀσκληπιόν. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 14:2)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ καταπεπλασμένη ψιμυθίῳ ἕστηκα καὶ κροκωτὸν ἠμφιεσμένη ἀργόσ, μινυρομένη τι πρὸσ ἐμαυτὴν μέλοσ, ἀργόσ, μινυρομένη τι πρὸσ ἐμαυτὴν μέλοσ, παίζουσα. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Lyric-Scene2)
  • κατέπλασε ψιμυθίῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 23 2:4)
  • εἰ δὲ καὶ ταῦτ’ ἐστὶ τῶν καθ’ αὑτά, τὸν τἀγαθοῦ λόγον ἐν ἅπασιν αὐτοῖσ τὸν αὐτὸν ἐμφαίνεσθαι δεήσει, καθάπερ ἐν χιόνι καὶ ψιμυθίῳ τὸν τῆσ λευκότητοσ. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1 45:2)
  • εἴ τίσ σου ξανθὰσ οὔσασ τὰσ τρίχασ ψιμυθίῳ ἀλείψειεν, πότερον τότε λευκαὶ εἰε͂ν ἢ φαίνοιντ’ ἄν; (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 166:3)

Synonyms

  1. white lead

Related

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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